Donna Brazile

Donna Brazile (15 December 1959-) was the Chair of the Democratic National Committee from 5 April to 4 May 2011, succeeding Tim Kaine and preceding Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and from 28 July 2016 to 25 February 2017, succeeding Wasserman Schultz and preceding Tom Perez. She was also a political analyst for CNN until 2016, when CNN severed its ties to her due to her role in giving classified debate questions to Clinton before she took part in the live debate.

Biography
Donna Brazile was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on 15 December 1959, and she earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Louisiana State University in 1981. She volunteered for Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter's 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns as a youth, and she worked for advocacy groups in Washington DC after leaving college, working to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday. In 1988, she was fired from Michael Dukakis' presidential campaign after telling the press that the American people deserved to know if Barbara Bush would share a bed with George H.W. Bush due to his alleged extramarital affairs. In 2000, she became Al Gore's campaign manager, becoming the first African-American woman to manage a major party presidential campaign. In 2011 and from 2016 to 2017, she served as Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. In October 2016, she was discovered to have illicitly shared debate questions with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton ahead of time, and CNN severed its ties with Brazile, who had hitherto worked as a political analyst for it. She left the DNC chairmanship in February 2017.